Technically speaking, there are too many Hollywood animated movies now that can beat "The Return of the Monkey King".
Not to mention the animated movies produced by Disney, even Warner Bros. can’t compare.
However, this film only has an investment of 100 million, and this 100 million is not all at once.
If the production team had a capital of 100 million seven years ago, it would definitely be doing much better than it is now.
However, the investments from hundreds of investors did not arrive all at once. There was a gap of six or seven years from the first investment to the last investment in the Han and Tang Dynasties.
There is no money, and the engine is from a few years ago. It is already very good to be able to do this.
There are many flaws, obviously in the area of hair. At the beginning of "The Return of the Great Sage", the hair modeling of Jiang Liuer's parents was very delicate, but later on, except for the master's beard and chaotic hair, there were
The hairy areas are relatively rough.
The hair of the common people in Chang'an City is basically black.
However, once these are done, they are just the icing on the cake, not the decisive factor. After all, movies are never meant for professionals.
The long shot of Chang'an City at the beginning was very well done. In the scene where the people in the city watch a shadow puppet show, Jiang Liu'er's mischief not only made the audience more engaged in the play, but also caused continuous murmurs.
It's the Spring Festival and this is an animated movie!
The Spring Festival needs movies that can make people happy, and the audience of animated movies has always been teenagers and even children.
If it is not in line with the audience, no matter how good the shot is, it may fail.
The classic animated film "Wall-E" grossed more than $500 million at the global box office, while its predecessor "Finding Nemo" a few years ago grossed more than $900 million at the global box office, a difference of nearly double.
Almost everyone believes that "Wall-E" is better, but it is not that blockbuster, and its income from video tapes, TV on demand, and peripheral markets is far lower than that of "Finding Nemo."
Firmly grasping the preferences of potential viewers is a more important factor than quality.
In recent years, many animated films have been released during the Spring Festival in China, and the "Pleasant Goat" and "Bear Bears" series have done well at the box office every year.
It is both comedy and animation, and it captures the market of children as well as adults.
And unlike "Pleasant Goat" and "Bear Bears", which have a small audience, "The Return of the Monkey King" is also very attractive to adult audiences. After all, it is a Journey to the West movie, which has brought childhood memories to generations!
A few years later, in the city of Chang'an, the atmosphere was very lively in front of the shadow puppet stalls. Shadow puppet artists were interpreting the story of the Great Sage Monkey King causing havoc in the Heavenly Palace.
"But Sun Wukong will not die!" A Sun Wukong doll entered randomly.
Who says babies have no memory!
When the little boy Jiang Liuer grew up, he still remembered what his father said.
The artist drove away the troublemaker Jiang Liuer.
He took the doll and ran on the roof.
He yelled and frightened the dentist who was pulling the teeth.
Customers drinking soup.
Cook cooking.
The carving craftsman.
"I was like this when I was a kid, using a stick as a golden cudgel and playing the role of Sun Wukong!"
Watching Jiang Liu'er running wantonly, the audience vaguely remembered the scene from their own childhood.
"Hahaha, this kid is so cute, he's so cute!"
"The sudden appearance of shadow puppets in southern Henan!"
"Whose naughty kid is so naughty, haha!"
Jiang Liuer, who was running around, bumped into his master Faming.
Of course Fa Ming knew how naughty his disciple was.
Like every parent, he hopes that his children will be down-to-earth and safe.
But it’s not easy in these troubled times!
Jiang Liuer's young mind does not want to live an ordinary and mediocre life just to fill his stomach every day.
Like most boys, he wants to be a hero, learn martial arts, fight mountain monsters, and create peace!
But the master rejected Jiang Liuer's idea and asked him to do his duty as a monk, not to fight and kill, and to use Buddhism to save all sentient beings.
"But how can the mountain demon understand your Dharma?"
Jiang Liuer asked innocently.
The sudden lightning turned the world pale, and the dark sky seemed to herald the coming disaster.
The seemingly peaceful city of Chang'an was finally broken. The mountain demon descended from the mountain and everyone fled.
"Fire the arrows! Fire the arrows!" Some soldiers stood firm at their posts.
However, how can a few wooden arrows stop the menacing monsters?
In the crowd, the master and Jiang Liuer got separated.
On the other side, the mountain demon counted the captured children and found that a girl was missing.
Jiang Liuer rescued the little girl, but got separated from his master and hid in a cave.
There was a lump of ice in the cave, and Jiang Liuer put his hand on it.
"Palmprint authentication, high technology!"
"Hey, the authentication is successful and is being unlocked. Please wait!"
"Jiang Liu'er gets a cute pet from the Great Sage!"
Although the mountain demon did evil and the city of Chang'an was in chaos, the atmosphere at the scene was still very happy.
After all, it is an animated movie, and when Jiang Liuer was saving the little girl, he was constantly playing with these mountain monsters, making the audience laugh frequently.
The ice cracked and exploded bit by bit, causing the cave to collapse.
A long-faced monkey climbed out of it and killed the mountain monster that found its way into the cave.
The great sage, who had been suppressed for five hundred years, ran out of the cave and jumped onto a tree.
At this time, the sun had just risen, and the Great Sage was facing the sun, and everything looked so beautiful.
But the seal on his hand is still there and he can't fly again.
The Great Sage couldn't believe that he had lost all his magic power and turned into an ordinary long-faced monkey!
Jiang Liu'er watched the Great Sage in silence.
The Great Sage roared: "O Tathagata, isn't it enough that I have been trapped by you for five hundred years?"
"Don't forget that I am Qi! Heaven! Great! Saint!"
Jiang Liuer was shocked when he saw his idol for the first time.
Then he started a thought mode that was no less than that of his master.
"Monkey King?"
"He is really the Monkey King!"
"The Great Sage must know a lot of magic. I know that the Monkey King, the Monkey King, has a body like black iron, blazing eyes, immortality, seventy-two transformations, and a somersault cloud that is thousands of miles away!"
"There is also a Ruyi golden cudgel, big or small, hidden in the ear!"
"No more running away, Jiang Liu'er is Tang Seng!"
"He is simply more Tang Seng than Tang Seng. The poor Monkey King has to listen to Jiang Liuer's nagging from childhood to adulthood."
"Haha, the monkey is going to get hairy!"
The audience was having fun watching the verbose Jiang Liuer driving the Great Sage crazy on the big screen.
"Can you please leave me alone!"
All the magic power was lost, the golden cudgel was not there, and the little monk thought about it, which made the great sage explode. However, the arrogant great sage did not mention the magic power, but said it was too noisy.
Jiang Liu'er was frightened by the angry great sage, and promised the great sage not to speak again, and then
"Great Sage, does Erlang Shen really have three eyes?"
"The Great Sage, the Great Spirit God, are you very powerful?"
"yes."
"Are the four heavenly kings brothers?"
"It's sisters!"
This classic dialogue immediately made the audience feel relieved from the depression at the beginning.
"The blue bar of the Great Sage is empty!"
"It hurts my heart, old man!"
"The Four Heavenly Kings are going to change their names to the Four Heavenly Niangs!"
"Isn't this the legendary wool, monkey hair?"
They were noisy all the way and suddenly met the mountain god who was ordered to guard the great sage.
For a time the earth shook and the mountains shook.
"Since I know that you, Sun Dasheng, are here again, why don't you get out of the way quickly!" Even though he has no power, the pride of the Great Sage is still there.
"The Monkey King is just an ordinary stinky monkey now!"
The mountain god's words touched Sun Wukong's pain point.
A fierce battle began.
The Great Sage has been suppressed for five hundred years, and the mountain god has been here for five hundred years without freedom. Is this the so-called god?
The great sage without magic power must not only deal with the mountain god, but also protect Jiang Liu'er.
Finally, the mountain god was forced to the edge of the cliff and hung at the bottom of the cliff. Jiang Liuer climbed over and took off the spell.
The mountain god turned into stones, and Jiang Liuer fell down together with the great sage.
Seeing this, some sentimental viewers were a little worried. The Monkey King, who once wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Palace and swept away the heavenly soldiers and generals, was forced to be so embarrassed by a small mountain god.
On the other side, the mountain demon defeated by the Great Sage knelt on the ground and complained.
"The things in Five Elements Mountain are not easy to mess with, but I would like to see them first!"
In this way, the villain Faceless Man and the Great Sage became enemies!
Dasheng and Jiang Liuer fell off the cliff and found a dilapidated small temple under the cliff.
"Great Sage, there is a temple here!" He walked in quietly.
It was dilapidated inside.
Picked up the candlestick and finally cleared away the dust on the altar table.
The Buddha statue was choked by dust, sneezed, and ran out of the temple.
Jiang Liuer was so frightened that he shouted, "Great Sage, the Buddha has appeared!"
The great sage was also startled, fell down from the tree, and had a face-to-face encounter with the "Buddha"!
The "Buddha" who stole the fish rolled his eyes and thought for a moment.
Yes, I am Buddha!
So I made a mudra to show great compassion.
"Mommy Mommy coax"
However, the "Buddha" was so frightened by the little girl that his appearance changed, and it turned out to be Zhu Bajie in disguise.
Jiang Liu'er jumped out, "Monster, put down this silly girl, this is the Monkey King! Wukong! Kong!!!"
Bajie turned on the taunting mode, "Monkey King? Look at his hairy head, he's still Monkey King! I'm still Marshal Tianpeng!"
Bajie rushed towards the Great Sage in style to the music of the opera, but was poked in the nostril by the Great Sage with his finger and thrown aside.
Suddenly he remembered the battle five hundred years ago, the disastrous defeat that day, and being thrown down by Sun Wukong.
He fell into the pig pen and turned into a little pig.
"It's really him!"
Encountered an enemy!
Bajie was very angry. He had been overfed for five hundred years and was now so thin!
Not happy, want revenge!
"Okay, if you want revenge, come here!" The Great Sage looked at his fingers while holding it in his mouth!
However, Bajie gave up and Sun Wukong jumped away disdainfully.
Bajie got excited at this time, "Smelly monkey, don't leave. Don't leave if you can! I will spare you today, don't let me see you again!"
"I think you're scared!" Jiang Liu'er complained.
Jiang Liu'er taught the little girl, "Marshal Tianpeng seems to be not as powerful as the father-in-law of the land!"
The joyful Zhu Bajie dispelled the gloominess of Sun Wukong being defeated by the mountain god, and the atmosphere became joyful again.
"She's as skinny as an 800-pound pig, haha!"
"Mysterious Silence, kid, why are you so honest!"
"I pretended to be b, and I have to finish it even if I cry!"
The group of people moved forward and met the little white dragon.
The dragon and the monkey looked at each other for a long time, both of them were imprisoned, how angry and helpless they were!
Jiang Liu'er, the Monkey King's number one fan, exclaimed in admiration, "You scared it away!"
The arrogant Sun Dasheng reprimanded Jiang Liu'er: "You were almost eaten just now, you know! Why did you provoke that white dragon!"
He glanced at Zhu Bajie who was hiding aside, "It's all you, you're such a troublesome pig monster. You should be fed to the dragon!"
The stubborn Bajie: "Come on, isn't it just a dragon! Me"
Sun Wukong drags Zhu Bajie to feed the dragon
"Great Sage, please let him go!" Jiang Liuer cried and begged the Great Sage to let Bajie go.
The great sage was jealous, "Why do you always speak for him!"
Kind-hearted Jiang Liuer: "His ears are red!"
Several people quarreled, and the little white dragon jumped out from under the cliff and flew into the distance.
The Great Sage let go of Bajie, and Jiang Liuer sighed. "Dragons can really fly!"
The great sage said in an indifferent tone, "It's beautiful to be free."
But it hurts that he can't fly now, who knows!
Jiang Liuer sighed: "It would be great if I could fly!"
Bajie murmured at the side, "What's the point of flying? I can also fly!"
The little monk expressed his dream. If he could fly, he could find his master and send the silly girl home.
The Great Sage looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle and said, "One day, if you are strong and brave enough, you will be able to control them!"
Jiang Liuer jumped down and asked the Great Sage if this was true!
The great sage was arrogant again and jumped away.
Jiang Liuer's thought mode continued, "Great Sage, have you been to the Dragon Palace? Is the Dragon King very big?"
"To be big means to be big, but to be stingy!"
The three began a long journey.
Watch the white dragon fight in the sky and swim under the sea.
Like the naughty boys, let’s pee into the lotus pond together!
Don't forget to cover the little girl's eyes.
Jiang Liu'er saw the girl sitting on the shoulders of the great sage and recalled the time when the master carried her on his back.
We long for growth, but we also cherish the memory of childhood. The so-called growth is watching the back of the one you love again and again, gradually drifting away!
Bajie flew up, carrying Jiang Liu'er on his back, and there were bursts of laughter, happiness, it's that simple.
The master never gave up looking for Jiang Liuer.
Under the moonlight, in front of the waterfall, the master is also continuing his journey.
The little girl was kidnapped by a monster. Jiang Liuer hoped that the Great Sage could go with him to rescue the silly girl.
But Sun Wukong lost all his magic power and was already disheartened after yesterday's battle!
Roaring angrily: "I told you, I can't control it!"
Jiang Liuer ran away crying, even if he was alone, he would go and save the silly girl.
"ah!!!"
The great sage beat stones crazily like a self-abuse, was it because of his own cowardice or incompetence?
Bajie suddenly flew up.
It turned out that the great sage was casting a spell.
But in the end, he was still tired of the seal. He lay down slumped back and sank to the bottom of the lake.
"Great Sage, let's go and save the silly girl!" Jiang Liu'er's words to him rang in Sun Wukong's ears!
"I can't control it, I can't control it!" the Great Sage repeated, covering his head and crying bitterly.
"Great Sage!" I seemed to hear a familiar cry.
Opening my eyes, I saw familiar faces and innocent words.
"Look, I also have the Monkey King, can I give it to you?"
The Great Sage stretched out his hand, grabbed the doll, and thought of every day we spent together.
"Monkey! Please say something!" Bajie called Sun Wukong worriedly from above.
The Great Sage ignored him, not knowing what he was thinking.
"I know you are sad, you are the Monkey King!" Bajie expressed his last hope.
"The Great Sage Sun Wukong."
"There are seventy-two changes to immortality."
"A somersault cloud is one hundred and eighty thousand miles away."
Wukong recalled his number one fan Jiang Liu'er in his mind.
His own abilities.
Smile at the giant spirit god!
Fight against Nezha!
Fight with Erlang Shen!
What have the four heavenly kings, heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals, done to me?
He once stood arrogantly among the heroes, sitting on the golden chair in the Lingxiao Palace, laughing and cursing loudly, "Emperors take turns, come to my house tomorrow!"
Wukong jumped out of the water.
Hold onto the Great Sage Doll tightly.
Bajie was called.
Follow me!
"Good intentions!"
"The Great Sage also has times when he is helpless!"
"The Great Sage is also trying hard to break the seal, but he can't do it, he can't do it!"
"Don't forget, you are the Monkey King!"
On the other side, monsters are preparing sacrifices.
"There are temples in Five Elements Mountain."
"On the bank of the river, the eaves are raised."
"Borrow the essence of boys and girls."
The big villain, the Faceless Man, is still there singing a show.
Here, the young monk sneaked in quietly.
However, he was still discovered by the monster, and the master suddenly appeared and rescued him at the critical moment.
Like thousands of parents in the world, no matter how timid or indifferent they are, when their children are in danger, they can always burst out with infinite strength.
Jiang Liu'er knocked the stove away, hit the monster, and rolled out of the cave together.
The sun is being devoured bit by bit.
"Sun Wukong, you have ruined my good deeds time and time again!" The monster rushed out angrily.
He grabbed Jiang Liu'er and stood on the edge of the cliff, asking him about Sun Wukong's whereabouts!
"He is not a coward!" Jiang Liu'er would rather die than surrender.
"Poor Jiang Liu'er, the Great Sage will come to save you!"
"Justice may be late, but it will never be absent!"
"The Great Sage is back!!!"
It did not disappoint the audience's expectations, just when Jiang Liu'er was dying.
The air current surges under the cliff!
A giant dragon rises into the sky!
Sun Wukong and Bajie lived up to Jiang Liu'er's expectations and flew over on the giant dragon!
The little white dragon ate a mountain monster without being picky and then circled away.
In the smoke, Sun Wukong walked out with big steps.
"Great Sage, the Great Sage is here!" Jiang Liuer pointed out to the master happily.
The master was also stunned, "There really is a Monkey King!"
The monsters all hid behind the rocks.
Sun Wukong began his classic line, "I am here, why don't you hurry up?"
But halfway through, he was interrupted by Bajie on the side, "Marshal Tianpeng is here!"
The attacking Bajie quickly expanded and turned into a giant pig, rushing towards Chaos with a nine-tooth nail rake in hand.
As a result, he was beaten into Peppa Pig.
The Great Sage fought with Chaos and was thrown into the broken house twice.
Chaos finished cleaning up the Great Sage and flew towards the children.
The Great Sage smashed Chaos away with a stone and roared, "Don't come near them!"
The Great Sage also has his protection! It used to be Huaguo Mountain, but now, there are more of them!
However, he was still easily defeated.
"I said it!" The Great Sage lay on the ground, grabbed Chaos's legs, and emphasized in a hoarse voice, "Don't! Come close to them!"
Golden light suddenly appeared, and chaos was ejected!
The Great Sage ignored the cry caused by the seal in his hand and struck Chaos with a palm.
Almost brought chaos back to its original shape.
Chaos fell off the cliff along with the broken planks.
The great sage was extremely tired, so he lay down on the broken bridge and told Jiang Liu'er that he was fine. He wanted to rest for a while and let's go together.
"Go on, don't lose it again!" He threw the doll to Jiang Liu'er!
Suddenly, the sun was completely blocked by the moon, and a solar eclipse occurred.
There was a shock.
Chaos revealed its true form, an ugly monster with six legs and no face, climbing up from the cliff.
Although we have seen the original form of Chaos in the trailer, when we actually watched it on the big screen, it still aroused a sense of wonder.
"Damn, this big bug is so disgusting!"
“What a big lump of protein!”
"Isn't this just an infinitely enlarged version of maggots?"
The Great Sage jumped out and fought with Chaos.
Jiang Liuer handed the girl to the master and turned to help the great sage, but was grabbed by the master.
Then he slowly let go of his hand and simply said: "Be careful!"
When children grow up, they have to make their own way in the world!
"Eat my stick!" Jiang Liu'er pulled out a stick and threw it towards Chaos.
However, it was of no use.
Chaos was angered by this little character and pursued Jiang Liu'er relentlessly.
The great sage here has been working hard and finally broke the stone and ran quickly to Jiang Liu'er.
"Jiang Liuer Jiang Liuer fool! Fool!"
Every sentence of a fool shouting is heartbreaking.
By the time he arrived, Jiang Liuer had fallen off the cliff and was buried by a pile of boulders.
The Great Sage looked at the doll half-exposure in the rubble with disbelief on his face, and ran over to it as fast as he could, digging at the stone with his hands.
Jiang Liu'er's little hand hung down feebly, and the Great Sage's outstretched hand also stopped in mid-air.
Putting the doll in Jiang Liu'er's little hand, the Great Sage knelt on the ground and cried loudly, his tears falling on the doll.
"ah!!!!!!"
He still has no magic power, and the seal on his right hand still imprisons him.
The Great Sage walked forward step by step, and the gravel on the mountain wall behind him continued to fall off with his steps.
He stepped out of the cliff in mid-air, and this time he stood still.
He shouted to the sky and the seal on his hand was lifted.
A huge stone thrown by Wonton was melted by the flames on the Great Sage. In a ball of flames, the Great Sage completed his rebirth.
Pieces of flaming fragments formed a piece of armor on his body, and a ball of flame turned into a bright red cloak.
Melt rock into armor, wave flames into robes!
(I recharged money promptly and bought the Hellfire skin.)
He took out the golden cudgel from his ear, and a ray of golden light cut off Chaos's leg, streaked across the distant mountains, and forcibly separated the earth in two.
The Great Sage held the golden hoop in his hand and rushed towards the chaos like a ball of flame, with Jiang Liuer's smiling face still echoing in his mind.
This stick will turn you into ashes!
The returning Great Sage easily killed Chaos with one move!
On top of the mountain edge, the Great Sage stood with his head high on the sky, looking at the sun in the distance, his long red cloak fluttering in the wind.
"The Great Sage."
Suddenly a familiar voice came from behind, and the Great Sage turned his head sharply.
As soon as the picture went dark, the title "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" appeared on the big screen.
But before the audience could take off their 3D eyes, another scene appeared on the big screen.
Above the colorful auspicious clouds, the old monk Faming took the little girl and Jiang Liu'er home. Jiang Liu'er, whose whole body was bandaged, smiled and waved to the front.
The movie ends like this after a big climax, which makes people excited.
And it seems that Jiang Liu'er didn't die in the end, so it was a happy ending.
ps: In the countryside, there is no way to code on a mobile phone. There is no computer or Internet. The most important thing is that I can’t calm down all day long. The sounds of joking, playing cards, and firecrackers make it hard to calm down and code.
All the subscriptions are lost every day. I can’t do this anymore. I’ll go back to the city tomorrow and end the Spring Festival early, eh.